Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
TEXAS In TYPE.
Clippings from State Exchanges on Matters
of Interest.

tTOH Stt2to on uAatleTt
of Interest.
Hillsboro wants roller mill.
The well at Cisco is 1870 feet deep, and
the boring still going on.
Material has been purchased to build O
public free school building at Sulphur
Springs.
Among lot of hogs butchered in Par
ker county few days since, two of them
weighed's 55 pounds.
The church house at Elm Grove, six
teen miles northeast of Mckinney, was
burned on Christmas night.
Land in Delta county sells readily at
$40 per7acre. 1t is rich, black land, and
produces fine corn and cotton.
There is G movement on foot in Paris
to organize stock company and estab-
!ish 8 canning factory in that place.
The postoffice at Foy, in Collin county,
has been changed to Royse City, one mile
and q quarter south in Rockwell county.
Mr.. Gus Machemehl, aged twenty-six
years, committed suicide at his fathers
residence, near Kenneyville, on Christmas
day.
The Paris Daily News and Weekly
North Texan have been consolidated.
This union ought to give Paris splendid
paper.
Dr. Yandall is offering the San Angelo
Enterprise for sale. This is fine open
ing for some live newspaper man. The
Doctor wants to sell on account of his
health.
A son OF Mr.. VIM. Mcdonald, living
oil
and had his neck broken. The accident
occurred on Tuesday in the pasture of j.
j. Robertson.
The house of J. J. Fisher, thirteen
miles from GAINESVILLE, and occupied by
Lem Norwood, was burned on Monday
night, the house and contents being a
complete loss.
Owing to the many accidents which &C.
cur from the practice Of carrying arms,
MIR. Chase of the Red River Cattle COM
pany refuses to employ any man carrying
them about the ranch.
There is much complaint of dry weather
in the vicinity of Brandon; stock water is
very scarce, and all used for domestic
purposes has to be hauled. The wheat is
dying and slight freeze will kill out the
oats.
Mr.. A. C. Fields of Long Prairie, Delta
county, on Tuesday of last week conveyed
by deed to parties in McNairy county,
Tenn, the land on which was fought the
battle OF Shiloh; the tract contained 232
acres.
The Texas Coal Mining company of
Lampasas, recently organized, has some
very fine coal lands which they will pro-
coed to develop as soon as they car get
the machinery on the ground, having the
stock IN said company nearly all taken.
A young man named Zeisler died on
Tuesday night from the effects of an acct
dent at Campbell mills nesr Sulphur
Springs. He was caught by the revolving
shaft and carried around some twelve or
fifteen revolutions; he only lived few
days.
John Wesley of Hardeman county,
about October l, sowed fifty acres, part IN
wheat and part in rye; on this he fattened
fifty head of horses and cattle, and he
thinks it will serve as pasturage the rest
of the winter, and give fair yield in the
spring harvest.
The growing of alfalfa has proven sue
cessful in Hardeman comfy. Although
sown during the drought and not coming
up until the fall rains, it has rooted well
and bears pasturing finely, growing as
fast as bitten off, and has remained fresh
and green, notwithstanding the freezes,